Alex Burns

Cialdini's 'Edge Case' Students

Robert Cialdini's bestselling book Influence has some fringe exponents of social proof.

Sep 8 • 

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Defcon One

A Zeitgeist cultural signifier of anxiety is nuclear war themed existential risk.

Sep 4 • 

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August 2025

Standup Comedy As Liminality

Go onstage and tell jokes to receptive audiences when your life falls apart.

Aug 28 • 

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IRGC Proscribed

The IRGC will be a proscribed terrorist organisation in Australia.

Aug 27 • 

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Kiss Me Deadly

Don't play with existential risk or open that mysterious box.

Aug 25 • 

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In Recovery and Dystopian Science Fiction

When life gets too negative (dystopia) there is always hope - even if "nowhere" in Reality (utopia)

Aug 23 • 

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Battleship Potemkin

At least it's not Spacecruiser Yamato . . .

Aug 22 • 

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What I'm Reading

What I'm reading at the moment.

Aug 22 • 

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June 2025

May 2025

June 2023